1. What we should do - work within TRIPS or modify TRIPS
2. Compulsory licensing increases access by decreasing prices
3. T cards - IPR is a public health issue, compulsory licensing is assistance
4. Neoliberalism - IPR is the core of neoliberalism, compulsory licensing challenges neoliberalism
5. Trade war DA to non-US CP (and it kills relations with that country)
6. US is key to infrastructure - other countries can't produce drugs well, they produce unsafe drugs, etc.
7. AT: Brazil solves now
8. AT: Patents key to innovation, AT: Patents key to the economy
9. US moral obligation, ethics of patents
Things we need:
1. Cultural relativism vs. cultural universalism
2. Plan can overcome cultural barriers - Nigeria, empirical solvency
3. Public health vs. rights-based approach (civil and political vs. economic and social rights)
4. Feminist movements - US needs to link up with the African feminist movement, global movements good
5. FGC is really bad - it kills people, kills rights
6. Gender impacts - men suck, women are awesome, men cause war (Reardon)
7. Rights are important, outweigh DAs and loss of life
Health Care Workers
Mindy
Michael
Stephen
Things we need:
1. Solvency - incentives (loan repayment) will make doctors stay in Africa, more doctors means less disease, the US needs to act
2. Permutation evidence on linear solvency
3. Other forms of assistance fail without health care workers - drug resistance, supervirus, mutations!
4. Specific diseases that health care workers solve
5. The US has a moral obligation to stop stealing health workers/to provide more health workers
6. AT: Doctors spread disease/get diseases
7. AT: Language, training barriers, incompatability
8. AT: They steal doctors from the US and US doctors are key to the economy/solve disease
9. AT: They won't go or stay
10. AT: Infrastructure
11. AT: International CPs (US key, US leadership, Modeling)
12. Politics/spending cards
13. Topicality
Smoking/Oil and Gas/Evil
Amy - smoking
Jesse - oil
Jake - e-waste
David - e-waste
Things we need:
For oil
1. Reverse China advantage - they perceive the US as containing them, US pulling out will cause China to cooperate with us in other areas
2. China destroys the environment less than the US
3. Assistance means removing barriers
4. Dumping, toxic waste are public health issues
For e-waste
1. E-waste is dumped in Africa by the US
2. E-waste is really bad
For tobacco
1. Free speech
2. Tobacco causes disease and interferes with medication
3. Debt/dependence/colonialism
Disease Surveillance
Nathan
Ram
Hao
Ben
1. US key to bioterror - CDC
2. Satellites solve disease, AT: Not enough people
3. T cards - satellites are PHA
4. Satellites prevent genocide, refugees, bad environmental effects (deforestation, desertification)
5. Relation between surveillance and quarantine, general early detection
6. SQ spending ineffective, more needed
7. AT Country PICS
8. Specific ways to do surveillance
1ACs for teams
Ben Chang and Ram Jayakumar
Jordan Daniels and Jesse Spafford
Rebecca Drapkin and Stephen Li
Nicholas Dumlao and Mindy Hunyh
Nathan DuPont and Michael Park
David Gritz and Hao Shen
Amy Hu and Kyra Weiss
Ilias Karim and Jake Sendar
Bala Sekaran and Dexter Zhuang
If there is no specific 1AC for a given team, they are reading the general 1AC below for the case title specified on the disclosure form.
Links to 1ACs
Health Care Workers
E-Waste
IPR
Disease Surveillance
IPR
Rebecca
Kyra
Dexter
Bala
1. What we should do - work within TRIPS or modify TRIPS
2. Compulsory licensing increases access by decreasing prices
3. T cards - IPR is a public health issue, compulsory licensing is assistance
4. Neoliberalism - IPR is the core of neoliberalism, compulsory licensing challenges neoliberalism
5. Trade war DA to non-US CP (and it kills relations with that country)
6. US is key to infrastructure - other countries can't produce drugs well, they produce unsafe drugs, etc.
7. AT: Brazil solves now
8. AT: Patents key to innovation, AT: Patents key to the economy
9. US moral obligation, ethics of patents
Key words: "market fundamentalism" "free trade faith" "faith in trade" "market religion" "market priest" market w/s utop!
FGC
Ilias
Nick
Jordan
Things we need:
1. Cultural relativism vs. cultural universalism
2. Plan can overcome cultural barriers - Nigeria, empirical solvency
3. Public health vs. rights-based approach (civil and political vs. economic and social rights)
4. Feminist movements - US needs to link up with the African feminist movement, global movements good
5. FGC is really bad - it kills people, kills rights
6. Gender impacts - men suck, women are awesome, men cause war (Reardon)
7. Rights are important, outweigh DAs and loss of life
Health Care Workers
Mindy
Michael
Stephen
Things we need:
1. Solvency - incentives (loan repayment) will make doctors stay in Africa, more doctors means less disease, the US needs to act
2. Permutation evidence on linear solvency
3. Other forms of assistance fail without health care workers - drug resistance, supervirus, mutations!
4. Specific diseases that health care workers solve
5. The US has a moral obligation to stop stealing health workers/to provide more health workers
6. AT: Doctors spread disease/get diseases
7. AT: Language, training barriers, incompatability
8. AT: They steal doctors from the US and US doctors are key to the economy/solve disease
9. AT: They won't go or stay
10. AT: Infrastructure
11. AT: International CPs (US key, US leadership, Modeling)
12. Politics/spending cards
13. Topicality
Smoking/Oil and Gas/Evil
Amy - smoking
Jesse - oil
Jake - e-waste
David - e-waste
Things we need:
For oil
1. Reverse China advantage - they perceive the US as containing them, US pulling out will cause China to cooperate with us in other areas
2. China destroys the environment less than the US
3. Assistance means removing barriers
4. Dumping, toxic waste are public health issues
For e-waste
1. E-waste is dumped in Africa by the US
2. E-waste is really bad
For tobacco
1. Free speech
2. Tobacco causes disease and interferes with medication
3. Debt/dependence/colonialism
Disease Surveillance
Nathan
Ram
Hao
Ben
1. US key to bioterror - CDC
2. Satellites solve disease, AT: Not enough people
3. T cards - satellites are PHA
4. Satellites prevent genocide, refugees, bad environmental effects (deforestation, desertification)
5. Relation between surveillance and quarantine, general early detection
6. SQ spending ineffective, more needed
7. AT Country PICS
8. Specific ways to do surveillance